Green Onions
"Green Onions" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever" and as one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.
| "Green Onions" | ||||
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Cover of the 1962 US single | ||||
| Single by Booker T. & the M.G.'s | ||||
| from the album Green Onions | ||||
| B-side | "Behave Yourself" | |||
| Released | July 1962 | |||
| Recorded | June 1962, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
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| Length | 2:52 | |||
| Label | Stax | |||
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| "Green Onions" on YouTube | ||||
The track was originally issued on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of "Behave Yourself" on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions that same year. The organ sound of the song became a feature of the "Memphis soul sound".
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